In the News (Tue 3 Mar 15)

Imperialist powers that had more colonial possessions raised the anachronistic flag of "free trade" to camouflage their own protectionism while those that had less were blatantly protectionist and demanded to have a greater share of global economic territory.

The catchwords of liberalization, privatization and deregulation mean respectively the unbridled flow of imperialist investments and trade, the private appropriation of public assets and funds and the erosion of antitrust laws and removal of social regulations to protect labor, women, children, the aged and the environment.

In the imperialist countries, the proletariat must conjoin with the nonproletarian masses to confront the deteriorating economic and social conditions and the political threats of chauvinism, fascism and racism and prepare for the overthrow of the monopoly bourgeoisie.

Imperialism draws heavy criticism on the grounds that it is a form of economic exploitation in which the imperialist power makes use of other countries as sources of raw materials and cheap labor, shaping their economies to suit its own interests and keeping their people in poverty.

The adjectival form "imperialist" dates back to the 17th century, but until the late 19th century it meant an adherent of an emperor or of an imperial form of government.

One thing to note in some allegedly imperialistic countries is the "melting" bettween the name -- and in many times, the sense of national identity -- of the titular nation and the other territories controlled by this nation including the titular nation itself.

War is generally seen as a method of furthering imperialist interests, which is why Marxists generally see opposition to 'capitalist wars' as an integral part of anti-imperialism (as important as supporting national liberation movments, for example).

The relationship of Marxists and other radical left-wing groups with anti-war movements often involves them trying to win the argument for turning pacifism into anti-imperialism - that is, moving from a general opposition to war towards a condemnation of the economic system that is seen as driving wars.

However, at the same time, it can also be said that it was imperialist as it asserted its dominance over the countries of Eastern Europe.

The imperialist camp is also supported by colony-owning countries, such as Belgium and Holland, by countries with reactionary anti-democratic regimes, such as Turkey and Greece, and by countries politically and economically dependent upon the United States, such as the Near Eastern and South American countries and China.

The cardinal purpose of the imperialist camp is to strengthen imperialism, to hatch a new imperialist war, to combat socialism and democracy, and to support reactionary and anti-democratic pro-fascist regimes and movements everywhere.

The purpose of this camp is to resist the threat of new wars and imperialist expansion, to strengthen democracy and to extirpate the vestiges of fascism.

Imperialist Troops Out of Iraq! : SF Indymedia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

The limits of the efficiency of the imperialist machine was demonstrated beyond any doubt even in the battle to control the smallest of the Iraqi Arab cities, the port of Um Qasr The most difficult part for the invaders starts after their provisional and partial victory.

In the current interim period of imperialist “peace” all the vultures of capital, first of all the French and German “peace-loving” imperialists and the EU come to demand to share the war spoils in the name of “rebuilding” Iraq and under the disguise of a central “humanitarian” role for the UN.

The U.S imperialist “ war on terror of indefinite duration” is an attempt to re-shape all the relations between classes and between States according to the urgent needs of the crisis and decline of American and world capitalism.

www.sfimc.net /news/2003/05/1606331.php (2406 words)

Imperialist War and Capitalist Economic Cycles(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

In short, imperialist war plays a purgative function in the overall imperialist world crisis to the extent, and only to the extent, that it physically destroys the means of production.

In future imperialist world wars it seems almost certain that the means of production will suffer unprecedented extremes of destruction in every imperialist country (as well as large areas of the rest of the world).

In other words, even though the home plant of the U.S. imperialists was not damaged in the war, they were able to benefit from the destruction of the capital of the other imperialist and capitalist countries.

It's only a matter of time before the powder keg is set off and bloody battles are waged by the Albanian toilers to defend themselves against the imperialist occupation force, whose aim is to attempt to force them to accept as normal the joblessness, social insecurity, and dog-eat-dog competition produced by the workings of capitalism.

The imperialist bayonets there are not only aimed against the Albanian toilers who've taken up arms, but at the working class world wide.

While allied in their desire to overturn the workers states, the increasing tensions among the different imperialist powers - from Washington and Paris to Rome and Athens - are another piece of the explosive situation.

Its aim is to advance imperialist domination in the region and make sure that any moves towards East Timorese nationhood won't threaten capitalist rule in Indonesia — where a recent upsurge of working-class protests forced the Indonesian rulers and their imperialist backers to elbow dictator Suharto out of power — and beyond.

The imperialist intervention in East Timor is not only aimed at containing the independence struggle but also at keeping in check the rising struggles of new generations of working-class fighters in Indonesia.

Imperialist economic and trade sanctions against Indonesia are also part of the arsenal of reactionary intervention.

Important theoretical contributions towards raising theoretical understanding of imperialistglobalization were made by the Philippine progressive and revolutionary movement at the conference--including a paper submitted by the Communist Party of the Philippines.

But there is a fundamental faultline in the world imperialist economy: the division of the world into oppressor and oppressed nations.

The imperialists talk of an economically and technologically "interconnected world." But this "interconnected world" is a class-divided and conflicted world.

rwor.org /a/v19/930-39/933/globe1.htm (1522 words)

The Anti-imperialist News Service(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

At the recent opening of the 54th session of the U.N. General Assembly, the issue of state sovereignty was again brought to the forefront.

For example, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin asserted that "we must defend the principle of intervention by the international community, under U.N. auspices, to bring relief to the victims," and that the U.N. mission must be extended to "defending human dignity within each state and where necessary, as the Charter permits, against states....

In attacking the principle of the sovereignty of nations, the imperialist powers are undermining the very foundation of international law and the established norms of relations between states.

Imperialist normalization has not been successful in Serbia and there are still forces of resistance which we have to support and link up with.

Their is much in the imperialist press about North Korea Breaking some sort of a treaty.

This is our main problem with the anti-globalization movement which is in one or the other way supportive to left liberalism being one pole of the imperialist system (a pole which is in no way better than the conservative one as was clearly displayed by their leadership in the war against Yugoslavia).

To label the one method 'anti-imperialist' and the other 'imperialist,' is to ignore the fact that whatever the method British interests were steadily safeguarded and extended.

By recognizing that there are numerous informal types of imperialist domination which precede or accompany the establishment of formal rule, or even make it unnecessary, Western [non-Marxist] thinking on the subject of imperialism has drawn closer to Marxist theory...

Imperialist forces at the colonial periphery were by no means obliged constantly to resort to the actual use of political power: it was generally quite enough to know that the imperialist groups could count on support from the metropolitan power in the event of a crisis.

www.alternet.org /story/16007 (2765 words)

US IMPERIALIST PLUNDER AND WAR AND THE PEOPLE’S RESISTANCE : QC IMC(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

These are between the oppressed nations and people on one hand and the imperialist powers spearheaded by the US, between countries and governments assertive of national independence and the imperialist powers, among the imperialist powers themselves and between the proletariat and monopoly bourgeoisie in the imperialist countries.

At this time, the US is still heading the imperialist powers in misrepresenting and attacking as “terrorist” movements for national liberation, countries and governments assertive of national independence, peoples engaged in revolution and their anti-imperialist leaders.

By intensifying oppression and exploitation, US imperialists are the very ones most active in rousing the people to fight ever more resolutely and vigorously for their own national and social liberation.

qc.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1564 (2157 words)

THE SECOND IMPERIALIST WAR(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

But when the predatory policy of certain imperialist states encounters the obstacle of certain other imperialist states and cannot break through this obstacle by peaceful means, then these states use warlike means to break through this obstacle so that they may pursue their predatory policies..

A portion of the imperialist states, the fascist states of Germany, Italy, and Japan, were waging wars of aggression like mad dogs, violating the interests of all small and weak peoples, violating the interests of all democratic countries, and unleashing a fascist menace within each democratic country.

In all the imperialist countries participating in the war, we must call on the people to oppose the imperialist war, make clear the imperialist nature of both warring camps, treat them all as the same kind of robbers.

In addition there are those who are in the imperialist countries illegally by imperialist law and thus do not enjoy the wage conditions for the normal exploiter-citizen.

Less than 9% of the imperialist country populations in 1999 were not in the top 20% of the world by income--the kind of people MIM has emphasized are lumpen and abused non-citizens.

Our critics including all the so-called Marxist organizations in the imperialist countries except the handful affiliated/friendly with MIM say that the 90% of the imperialist countries' population is exploited.

The Anti-imperialist News Service(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

This war was never motivated by any "humanitarian" motives but rather by the struggle of the imperialist powers to redraw the map of the Balkans, to gain control over this strategic gateway to Europe as part of their struggle to redivide the world.

The imperialist "peace" imposed on Yugoslavia is nothing more than a lull between periods of war.

Today the imperialist powers are waging a ferocious struggle over every inch of the earth - a struggle for a new economic and territorial division of the world, a struggle for empire.

www.anti-imperialist.org /ains_art10.html (869 words)

Oppose U.S. Imperialist-Led Aggression in the Gulf!(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

They must rely on their own efforts and not count on "help" from imperialists and reactionaries, or plan on "purchasing" liberation with the revenues from oil, that curse on the Middle East.

Now the USSR feels its imperialist interests are best served by allying themselves with the U.S. in the Gulf, and the bitter fruit is seen today when the Soviet's protege, Assad of Syria, who postured as a big anti-imperialist, is shamelessly participating in the U.S.-sponsored aggression against the Arab masses.

The revolutionary communists must strive to put themselves at the head of the struggle of the masses against U.S. imperialist aggression, help the masses to distinguish their friends from their enemies in the course of the battle, and step up their efforts to establish genuine proletarian vanguard parties.

Imperialist Globalization and the United States(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

When examining the state of imperialism, or imperialistglobalization it is important to note that there exists a fundamental fallacy, in both the popular mind and in some sections of the progressive movements, which are going into battle against globalization.

There is a tendency to concentrate capital in the three main imperialist blocks, Japan, the European Union, and the U.S. More than 70% of the global flow of direct investment is concentrated in the U.S. and likewise 68% of U.S. direct investments are in Japan, the European Union and Canada.

On the other hand, in the context of imperialistglobalization we need to see that there is a dialectical relationship between economic developments in other imperialist countries, the Third World and the United States.

www.frso.org /about/docs/glob2001.html (2926 words)

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The imperialist response was an unleashing of fascist violence in coordination with the State.

Therefore, in their view, in this period of heavy repression and imperialist counter-offensive the first task is to sink deeper underground roots within the proletariat, increasing agitation, and giving industrial workers clear political leadership for mass struggles.

This view holds an unchanged analysis of the long-term nature of the imperialist crisis, in which: "Class tensions coagulate with the prospects of civil war and the authoritarian transformation of the State reaches and goes beyond the point of no return".

Revolutionaries in imperialist countries always want their rulers to lose, as Tony Cliff observed: "The line of revolutionary defeatism is a universal one, applicable to all imperialist countries" (op cit.

Liebknechts slogan must be understood in its context: in World War I, while defeatist toward both gangs of imperialist bandits, socialists in every country had a duty to treat their "own" rulers as the "main enemy".

Militants within the SWP who are seriously committed to the revolutionary traditions their leaders sometimes pay lip-service to, must break politically with the revisionism of Cliff and Co. and embrace the revolutionary programme of authentic Trotskyism.

In recent years the imperialist powers have become bolder in asserting their desire for complete world domination.

The problem with this campaign is that it promotes what is essentially an anti-war, pacifist political line which does not clearly distinguish between the violence of the imperialist aggressors and the just resistance, including armed struggle, of people subject to imperialist oppression and exploitation.

The great mass of the people in imperialist countries such as Britain and those directly subjected to imperialist oppression and exploitation have the same objective interests in common because they are faced with the same enemy: the imperialist capitalist classes.

website.lineone.net /~partisan_britain/impact (253 words)

Fear the Imperialist and grow old(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

Two hundred fifty years later, the African is still languished in the corners of Imperialist society and finds himself as a slave in his own land because they have made us blind not to see the riches around and under our feet.

It is obvious today that the Imperialist has defaulted for thinking that so far as her salves are concerned, they will never get back to their senses to revolt against them.

Instead of honoring this independence obligation, the imperialist has given the Black people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." These is no money in our coffers to pay for the slaves we maltreated.

But the US and the German imperialists have conflicting interests and rival plans in securing the territory for laying the oil pipelines from the Caucasus and Caspian regions to Europe.

The revolutionary proletariat and communists, through their parties, trade unions and states committed to socialism, must be actively involved in such an international united front and must give full play to the broad mass movement.

The WSF, for example, was established by the imperialists in collaboration with social democrats and the French Trotskyites in ATTAC and Le Monde and shortly after the militant mass actions in Seattle and the announcement to form the ILPS in 1999.

It was split over the ceaseless campaign by the imperialists to conceal the real stakes of the war--the carving up of the Balkans--behind the demonization of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and his government.

But he is a prisoner of the imperialists who has refused to bow to this kangaroo court and has, at least for now, turned the tables.

This kangaroo court is a weapon the imperialists are using to threaten everyone, everywhere, who does not genuflect to their conquest.